Opinion: As one Joe builds, another Joe destroys

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

It was the split screen that has bedeviled the Biden presidency.

There they were Wednesday afternoon, in the exact same time slot: The two Joes. The president, and the man who is destroying his presidency.

In the East Room of the White House, President Biden gave only the second solo news conference of his tenure, marking the end of a punishing first year in office.

And smack dab in the middle of the news conference, Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) rose on the Senate floor to hammer one more gratuitous nail in the coffin of Biden’s agenda.

Biden, in a nearly two-hour session with reporters, pleaded passionately for Democrats to force action on the voting rights legislation to counter breathtaking moves by GOP-controlled states to disenfranchise racial minorities, give partisan actors more power to overrule election outcomes and otherwise stack the deck against democracy.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/01/19/joe-biden-faces-off-with-joe-manchin/

[Irish_Dem]

1. Manchin is delivering one torpedo after another.

Timing and intent is clear and and deliberate.

[qazplm135]

3. Those two could give a flying fig about Democrats

they care about themselves...that's it. If it helps the team, great, if not, great...and if you don't like it, they'll just leave, or at least threaten to.

[Irish_Dem]

4. I believe Manchin's intent is to damage.

I don't think he cares at all about the issues or the process.

[qazplm135]

5. I think it's self interest

now what that interest is, don't know...could be money, could be reelection, could be some ridiculous but honest belief.

[Irish_Dem]

6. It has gone way beyond self-interest.

His constant arguing, fighting, demeaning Biden and the party with his precisely timed public tirades point to certain motives.

Motives that coincidentally perfectly align with our party's opponents.

[qazplm135]

7. playing to what he thinks

WV voters want, a Dem that fights more with Dems.

Not defending him, it's cowardly.

[PortTack]

2. NO WORDS!!